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By Colleen Lhota Good business processes enable you to anticipate shifts in the marketplace and exceed your customers' expectations, while keeping costs under control. IBM Business Process Management (BPM) V7.5 can help you discover, document, automate, and continuously improve your business processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Want to learn more about BPM V7.5? IBM Education Assistant provides more than 75 videos covering the following topics: Overview of IBM Business Process Management V7.5 Business Process Manager -... [More]

This post represents the first, in what we hope, will be a series of question and answer blogs with developmental, architectural, and project management experts for the IBM Business Process Management family of products.
As a 10-year IBMer writing technical documentation and providing technical support, I am frequently reminded of the need to look at our products with a customer-centric lens. With that focus, I strive to understand how you use our products and what kind of information truly helps you solve business issues. So, with that... [More]

Recently, I have run across some interesting information with how the WebSphere Process Server Version 7 HTTP Import Binding handles timeouts. The WebSphere Process Server HTTP Import Binding has 2 properties for handling timeouts and retries: Read Timeout : Specifies the time, in seconds, that the bind ing waits to read data while receiving a
response message. Setting this field to 0 causes the bind ing to wait
indefinitely. Number of Retries: Specifies the number of times the request is retried when the
system receives an error... [More]

At IMPACT 2011, IBM has announced the availability of next generation of BPM products, christened Business Process Manager V7.5. These products will be generally available on 3 June, 2011. Read the announcement here . Available in three editions, Standard, Express and Advanced, the successor of WebSphere Process Server will be the Advanced Edition. The Advanced Edition will combine the easy of use, task management capabilities of WebSphere Lombardi Edition and enterprise integration and transaction management capabilities of WebSphere Process... [More]

This blog contains some hints, tips and links that may help you resolve your WebSphere Process Server problems. Configuring the databases Having trouble configuring the databases for WebSphere Process Server? Database Design Tool to the rescue! Phani Madgula, WebSphere Process Server L2 engineer, has written this developerWorks article on configuring the databases for WebSphere Process Server. The article describes both the complexity involved to configure the databases for WebSphere Process Server, and introduces the Database Design... [More]

For my third post in the WebSphere Process Server Install space, I thought I'd tackle Fix
Pack 3 (v7.0.0.3) install since I've seen quite a few common questions
in this area. Especially in the NON-GUI, no-internet connectivity area.
Please note that this post will talk about only about installing the fix pack . You'll still need to review the official instructions for upgrading your profiles and such. As a very quick refresher, Installation Manager (IM) is what is used to
install WebSphere Process Server (WPS) from v7+ onwards.... [More]

Passive Nature of Transaction Timeouts Hello everyone!! I am Lalitha Chandran and a member of the WebSphere Process Server technical support team and in this blog I will be sharing some of the interesting (in my opinion :-)) observations I have made. To begin with, here's a classic problem with a transaction timeout. I was given a project interchange (PI) file, in which a microflow invokes a webservice that takes an hour to respond, but the microflow does not abort after the timeout. That's all it takes to get me started, a project... [More]